Weigh ins?

sczoo26
sczoo26 Posts: 102 Member
edited November 20 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey all,

Just a quick one - how often do you all weigh? I do once per week, does anyone do longer / shorter than that?

Thanks ☺️

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  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,244 Member
    Every day.
  • sczoo26
    sczoo26 Posts: 102 Member
    gebeziseva wrote: »
    Every day.

    Do you see a difference though or does it fluctuate?
  • donnylou
    donnylou Posts: 46 Member
    Once a week/10 days. I got a bit down when I weighed myself every day - it is harder for me to see improvements when I am losing about 2 pounds a week. I'd start to get upset and then eat badly. So once a week works best for me.
  • sczoo26
    sczoo26 Posts: 102 Member
    donnylou wrote: »
    Once a week/10 days. I got a bit down when I weighed myself every day - it is harder for me to see improvements when I am losing about 2 pounds a week. I'd start to get upset and then eat badly. So once a week works best for me.

    Hey, same as me - I can't do everyday especially when I'm in work my patients would think I'm barking lol! Once a week is fine for me too ☺️
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    About 1-3 days a week. Beginning, mid, end. Sometimes less though. I am (honestly) one of those where daily fluctuations drive me nuts. I don't know why though ... lol
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    I weight daily and use Happy Scale (IOs app) to track a moving average.

    I often see a 1kg "gain" after high exercise/high salt/higher carbohydrate days.
  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,244 Member
    sczoo26 wrote: »
    gebeziseva wrote: »
    Every day.

    Do you see a difference though or does it fluctuate?

    I weigh everyday precisely because of the fluctuations. If I weighed once a weak it is very possible to weigh on day with a high fluctuation and it might seem as if I gained. If I weighed everyday I would have seen the low value on the very previous day and not get upset at all.
  • philyflyazz
    philyflyazz Posts: 26 Member
    I'm addicted to weighing in I do every morning n track my progress
  • grandmaveter
    grandmaveter Posts: 1 Member
    Every few days.
  • sczoo26
    sczoo26 Posts: 102 Member
    Maybe I need to weight a little more often in scared of the scales mind lol
  • SacrificeSufferSalvation
    SacrificeSufferSalvation Posts: 21 Member
    Once a week before I eat anything. Normally Sunday or Monday. This week I did measure twice on Sunday and Monday just to verify the measurement.
  • sczoo26
    sczoo26 Posts: 102 Member
    SacrificeSufferSalvation wrote: »
    Once a week before I eat anything. Normally Sunday or Monday. This week I did measure twice on Sunday and Monday just to verify the measurement.

    Yeah measuring is a good way too, maybe I will start measuring and weighing once a week on a set day and see what the scales show...
  • tk2222
    tk2222 Posts: 199 Member
    I love weighing in everyday and getting those data points. I'm not freaked out by daily fluctuations - to the contrary, seeing them makes me more sanguine about trusting the trend than if I had just a weekly weight check that would have me wondering whether that was just a high day or a low day or what.
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    daily - it has destigmatized the number on the scale - now its just a data point = I can see how sleep, sodium, steps, exercise etc all affect my weight
  • Panda8ach
    Panda8ach Posts: 518 Member
    I weigh on a Monday...If I don't like what it says I weigh again on Tuesday and so on lol :D
  • Kida_Johnson
    Kida_Johnson Posts: 33 Member
    Every day. I log it in the Libra app.

    On Wednesdays I record the trend weight (provided by the app) into MFP.
  • richb178
    richb178 Posts: 47 Member
    If you plot a chart for a year with weighing daily vs. weighing weekly, it will look basically the same. I just do it once a week on the same day at the same time. Probably best to pick Tuesday-Friday first thing in the morning, but if you don't go out Friday nights then Saturday morning is probably a good choice as well - imho, of course.
  • DebLaBounty
    DebLaBounty Posts: 1,169 Member
    Daily, in the morning before eating or drinking anything. I input the number in Happy Scale app on my iPhone, and watch the downward weight trend. It accounts for the fluctuations, so I'm not freaking out about any temporary gains.
  • dalem14
    dalem14 Posts: 18 Member
    Every morning.
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    Every morning. Really helped open my eyes to how different foods effect me.
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    I weight daily and use Happy Scale (IOs app) to track a moving average.

    I often see a 1kg "gain" after high exercise/high salt/higher carbohydrate days.

    Same here although I use Weightgrapher.
  • candicew70
    candicew70 Posts: 74 Member
    edited July 2017
    Panda8ach wrote: »
    I weigh on a Monday...If I don't like what it says I weigh again on Tuesday and so on lol :D

    ^^^this! No--I actually only weight once a month. Or even less frequently. I don't own a scale because I'd be obsessed with it, and it's the least important tool that I use to assess my success. Body measurements and how my clothes fit tell me much more about whether I'm meeting my fitness goals.

    Weighing once a week seems entirely reasonable, but weighing once a day isn't really going to tell you anything.
  • Rebecca0224
    Rebecca0224 Posts: 810 Member
    I weigh daily and use a trending app.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Daily - helps understand why you fluctuate and why it doesn't actually matter.
    I just note any trend in a casual way.

    It's data, why be afraid of a device that gives you useful data?
  • Ca7cher
    Ca7cher Posts: 15 Member
    I don't like to keep a scale at home due to history with eating disorders.

    I weight myself every other week at the gym. It's really difficult to wait sometimes, but I feel so much better about myself knowing that the number I see represents my overall process better. :)
  • sczoo26
    sczoo26 Posts: 102 Member
    Thanks everyone for your help on this- I am going to have Sunday as my weigh day, and so I am going to weigh same time and day every week, I think if I weighed Daily I would be to scared to eat and end up licking a lettuce to survive lol! :D
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